Hospital costs, length of stay and mortality associated with childhood, adolescent and young Adult meningococcal disease in the US

Background Assessments of vaccination programmes should account for several important factors, including efficacy, safety and costs of preventing and treating the disease. Because patients with invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) are managed primarily in an inpatient setting, hospital costs and out...

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Published in:Applied health economics and health policy 2011-05, Vol.9 (3), p.197-207
Main Authors: Davis, Keith L., Bell, Timothy J., Miller, Jacqueline M., Misurski, Derek A., Bapat, Bela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Analysis
Bacterial diseases
Bacterial infections
Care and treatment
Child
Child, Preschool
Children
Cost-of-illness
Cross infection
Diagnosis
Economic aspects
Fatalities
Female
Health Administration
Health Economics
Health risks
Hospital Costs
Hospitalisation
Hospitalization - economics
Humans
Immunization
Infant
Infants
Length of Stay - economics
Male
Medical care, Cost of
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Meningococcal infections
Meningococcal Infections - economics
Meningococcal Infections - epidemiology
Meningococcal Infections - mortality
Mortality
Mortality risk
Neisseria meningitidis - isolation & purification
Nosocomial infections
Original Research Article
Patient Discharge
Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes
Public Health
Quality of Life Research
Retrospective Studies
Teenagers
United States - epidemiology
Young Adult
Young adults
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Summary:Background Assessments of vaccination programmes should account for several important factors, including efficacy, safety and costs of preventing and treating the disease. Because patients with invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) are managed primarily in an inpatient setting, hospital costs and outcomes are central endpoints in health economic evaluations of IMD. Objective The aim of the study was to estimate hospital costs, length of stay (LOS) and mortality associated with IMD among children, adolescents and young adults in the US. Methods The study design was a retrospective analysis of discharges from the 2006 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids’ Inpatient Database. Infant (
ISSN:1175-5652
1179-1896
DOI:10.2165/11587330-000000000-00000